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Tunde Ozasua
Building the Movement to Shut Down AFRICOM
29 Sep 2021
October 2021 is the 13th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM. The Black Alliance for Peace is launching an international month of action with an October 1 webinar and other events to amplify the Shut Down AFRICOM campaign.
Nino Brown, Derek Ford
Teaching Politically and the Problem of Afropessimism
29 Sep 2021
The authors argue that the theory of Afropessism is antithetical to the development of political movements.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopian Mystery: The Case of the 428 Disappearing Food Aid Trucks
29 Sep 2021
For nearly a year, warmonger and USAID administrator Samantha Power has been shrieking about famine in Ethiopia's Tigray, and demanding the humanitarian corridor that 428 massive food aid trucks have now mysteriously disappeared into.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Raytheon’s Raven caws “War—Evermore!” Not wind beneath Negroz wings…
29 Sep 2021
Raytheon’s Raven caws “War—Evermore!” Not wind beneath Negroz wings…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The War Aims of World War I and World War II and Their Relations to the Darker Peoples of the World, Merze Tate, 1943
29 Sep 2021
A 1943 Merze Tate essay provides a trenchant critique of the false hope of peace offered by the white west to “the darker peoples” of the world.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
U.S. Congressional Support for More War spending and AUKUS Anti-China Pact Exposes Cynicism of Biden’s UN Speech Calling for More Diplomacy
29 Sep 2021
Joe Biden spoke of peace and diplomacy at the U.N. but support for defense spending and war making are bipartisan imperatives that prevent the people's needs from being met.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
“Race Norming” and Health Care Jim Crow
29 Sep 2021
Health care disparities are inevitable when notions of white superiority are guiding principles in every sector of society.
Sarah Sax
Black families Passed Their Homes from One Generation to the Next. Now They May Be Lost.
02 Oct 2021
This article first appeared in The Guardian. Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger. Margaret Alston doesn’t remember the night that Hurricane Matthew hit, but she remembers how afraid she was of…
Simon Rolston, Nora Demnati
Anti-Black Racism in Canadian Prisons Remains Rampant, Despite Government Pledges
02 Oct 2021
Systemic racism is built into Canada’s prison system, but federal parties have little to offer incarcerated Black Canadians and their families. This article originally appeared in The Breach. More than a year on from a supposed reckoning over anti-Black racism in institutions, Black people in…
Emily Elena Dugdale, Irena Hwang
In a California Desert Sheriff Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes and Black Teens Bear the Brunt
02 Oct 2021
Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens for minor infractions that lead to criminal records and incarceration. (This article originally appeared in ProPublica.org.) Barron Gardner, a high school history teacher in Southern California’s Antelope Valley…